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Researcher Demonstrates ATM ‘Jackpotting’ at Black Hat Conference
- chaosmachine 16y agoThis is pretty much the ultimate fantasy hack. Who hasn't dreamed about walking up to an ATM, punching in some key sequence, and having it spit out an endless stream of money? Awesome.
- there 16y agoever since seeing terminator 2.
- pietrofmaggi 16y agoWe’re getting close: "Universal credit card in the palm of your hand..." http://hackaday.com/2009/09/23/universal-cc/ http://hackaday.com/2009/09/23/universal-cc/
- jolan 16y agoAwesome! Finally an easy way to bootstrap my startup.
- Eliezer 16y ago"In the 2010s, the role of angels diminished even further as many enterprising young startup founders realized that they didn't have to give away as much of their company if they knocked over a few banks; it was risky, but not as risky as dealing with venture capitalists." -- future book
- seldo 16y agoI feel like if you can knock over banks for arbitrary amounts of money you probably wouldn't bother with a startup in the first place. You'd just move to fiji and fuck around with unprofitable OSS projects.
- buro9 16y agoThe problem is that the money would be spewing out of ATMs in hotels and corner shops across the US and you wouldn't be there to collect.
- jacquesm 16y agoBut you can knock over banks for arbitrary amounts of money. All it takes is a gun and a bag. Whichever way you found to do that it would be illegal as hell and you'd be much more likely to rot in jail for a very long time as you would be to 'work on your OSS projects'. Crime sometimes pays but for the most part it doesn't. The funny thing is that criminals on the whole are stupid enough to think the 'opposition' is also stupid.
- ams6110 16y agoI'm pretty surprised to hear that ATMs use Windows CE or XP as their OS. This seems like a perfect place to use a stripped down, hardened Linux or BSD.